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rzzzt··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
Why don't these go in the system prompt or something that is easy to update?
rzzzt··on Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS
Friendly reminder that PC-GPE is still online!
rzzzt··on Study links coffee consumption to metabolic health and sex hormones
"Higher coffee consumption was linked to a more favourable glucose–insulin profile, higher concentrations of total and bioavailable testosterone, and increased levels of sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG). At the same time, free testosterone and the free androgen index were modestly lower. In women, hormonal associations were more limited and were primarily characterised by higher SHBG and lower measures of free androgens."

- Total testosterone = free + bound to albumin + bound to SHBG

- Bioavailable testosterone = free + bound to albumin

- Free testosterone = free (not bound to any protein)

...aaaand now I got a mild headache. Is this good or bad? Is this why the title says "links" and not "promotes" or "inhibits" or any other word with a concrete negative or positive connotation?

rzzzt··on Seven books I keep close because I love them
Number #8 will surprise you!

I keep a computer graphics book that I'm reading over and over again, just one chapter that is concerned with physically-based rendering. By now the theory is getting so ingrained I could write a path tracer in my sleep! But then again, I don't want to.

rzzzt··on Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory
My favorite is MONEY.BAS
rzzzt··on How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story
The replacement has a Geiger counter, don't worry.
rzzzt··on How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story
Looking straight into the eyes, strong handshake, exuding confidence?
rzzzt··on Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs
You can find recorded presentations on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_eSAF_qT_FY
rzzzt··on I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them
Tester tester kits will need to include a known good and a known bad reference cable for comparisons.
rzzzt··on Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?
Also a few free-but-cut-down versions like 5 (which still recognizes MS-DOS executables). I'm not going to recommend downloading it from any of the locations mentioned here but it's out there: https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/19179...
rzzzt··on I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them
But how can we know which tester is good and which one is scammy?
rzzzt··on Quake – 30th Anniversary Update
How many hours did you play when you found out you can dismiss the "computer updated" notification?
rzzzt··on Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
Was copying to the clipboard disallowed back then?
rzzzt··on Karpathy’s Pelican
This gets me thinking (although there is not much to divine from three letters). Maybe it's a Jennifer Lawrence GIF-inspired "Yeah, right" then? Downplaying the significance?
rzzzt··on Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2
OK, that I can relate to! :)
rzzzt··on Karpathy’s Pelican
Affirmation?
rzzzt··on Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2
I had a Crystal Semiconductor-based clone card that supported the SB Pro 2.0 features around that time.
rzzzt··on Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2
Not sure when the switchover happened, but IIRC I started out with SDL2 on Homebrew and recently got this compatbility shim instead when it updated: https://github.com/libsdl-org/sdl2-compat
rzzzt··on Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2
Tell us about the great Sound Blaster shortage! I thought they threw one after you each time you left a PC parts shop. (Could be a different time period.) The GUS on the other hand...
rzzzt··on Fasttracker II clone in C using SDL 2
Schism Tracker as well: https://github.com/schismtracker/schismtracker/
rzzzt··on Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
Do you want my honest, load-bearing opinion?
rzzzt··on Did They Ghost You?
But this is an issue with all legislation (or tabletop game design), right? You also don't want to fall on the opposite end of the scale where the people tasked with prosecuting these violations are allowed to go just by feel.
rzzzt··on Did They Ghost You?
What is your proposed time limit (when someone has to be hired to fill the position) and "cooldown period" (when hiring can re-open after someone does not meet expectations in practice)?
rzzzt··on PennyLane is an open-source quantum software platform for quantum
...computing, quantum machine learning, and quantum chemistry (probably a title length limit)
rzzzt··on Linux on the Sega 32X. Who needs hardware synchronization primitives anyway?
This is how Lumacode works, for home computers and consoles that don't have a digital display output. It encodes data in brightness levels of the composite video signal that can be reconstructed on the other end. An example: https://github.com/c0pperdragon/LumaCode/wiki/VIC-II-dizer-(...
rzzzt··on Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot
Related work (all involve noise and flickering images, photosensitive eyes/brains beware):

- "This game disappears if you pause it": https://youtu.be/Bg3RAI8uyVw

- "Illusion: If You Pause, The Image Will Disappear": https://youtu.be/ZqGfb_Vlrig

rzzzt··on The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)
We had Denver and Barney and The Land Before Time but kids suddenly memorizing all the latin names of each species was not a thing before Jurassic Park. (I think.)
rzzzt··on Show HN: 18 Words
I guessed HOPTO and PHOOT but none of them worked unfortunately
rzzzt··on No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026
Then we'll have to decrease the radius a bit.
rzzzt··on No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026
Whenever leap seconds were added, Google was running the clocks on their servers slower/faster over a longer period of time (hours) so they would slowly drift back in sync with the solid platinum, perfectly spherical grandfather's clock sitting in NIST or whatever: https://developers.google.com/time/smear
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